New Covid model predicts over 1 million deaths in China through 2023

China’s national health authority has not reported any official Covid deaths since the lifting of Covid restrictions. The last official deaths were reported on December 3.

China’s abrupt lifting of stringent Covid-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the U.S.-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).